Elin Videvall

Last week, we at @animecol-uu.bsky.social had the pleasure to host Chima Nwaogu från the University of Cape Town.

Chima gave the #Hemborg lecture, titled 'Why do Afrotropical birds breed when they do?' 🐦🪺

New manuscript out today in @ecol-evol.bsky.social, led by my grad student Anais. We collated data from thousands of recent animal pop-gen studies to test 3 simple hypotheses: does genomic (1) diversity decrease (yes), (2) differentiation increase (yes), both with increased IUCN-endangerment?

Bioinformaticians / computational biologists take note - know where you should take your OS tool chain from and do not introduce backdoors.

Today in the AI hellscape we are building for ourselves, people are easily creating "official looking" websites of popular bioinformatics software that are not at all linked to the developers.

An Intergeneric Hybrid Between Historically Isolated Temperate and Tropical Jays Following Recent Range Expansion | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶

Thanks for sharing your experience, Laura! We've done (with collaborators) individual mosquito transcriptomes, that worked well, and 16S on individuals, with only some giving enough reads, similar to your experience. So might be difficult, not sure!

Interested in evolutionary ecology and genetics? Check out this PhD position in Pau Carazo's lab in Valencia - we look forward to your application!

Thanks! Going to tag @hassansalem.bsky.social here as well. Although I'm not thinking of beetles, more mosquito-like, maybe he has some thoughts?

Anyone with experience doing #metagenomics #microbiome of small insects, e.g. mosquitoes? 🦟🦠

Trying to figure out feasibility of doing individual metagenomes vs pools of individuals. I see both approaches are still used in the literature. My concern would be getting enough DNA from individuals.

Thanks for sharing! Would have liked to see your talk! The microbial #pangenomes session was my favorite besides the #microbiome one.

Thanks #ESEB2025 for a great conference!

Our group had a lot of fun meeting people, learning new things, and talking about our research!

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Editorial: Accountability, voice, and trust - responsible use of GenAI in scientific publishing Over the last few years, the development and rapid advancement of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatG

Many of us are using LLMs in coding and scientific writing. They are very helpful tools, but we need to be thoughtful as we integrate them into our work flows to preserve accountability, voice and trust. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan.... An editorial at @evolletters.bsky.social for discussion:

60+ people currently queuing for S24 Forecasting evolution in natural populations at #eseb2025. 👥👥👥😅
We need bigger rooms ! @eseb2025.bsky.social

Final day at #eseb2025 starts with a great plenary by @jmappes.bsky.social about aposematism. 🦋
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Great to see Tom Gilbert still holding the #microbiome flag high, focusing mostly on why we need to study wildlife microbiomes more, even in the #museomics session. 🦠

#hologenomics #eseb2025

Very interesting plenary about deep-time #paleogenomics 🦣 and #aDNA by @lovedalen.bsky.social at #ESEB2025

#eseb2025 #eseb #sciart

Unfortunate that both ESEB and EOU are running simultaneously!

I'm not very good at live posting (I tend to overthink my posts and then lose track of the talks). For #ESEB2025 live posts, I recommend following @marcrr.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy and @mrtnj.bsky.social, who have been good at it at every conference I've attended with them

I will present a poster about the lack of diet-microbiome interactions in giraffes. P01.104. #ESEB2025

Matias Becker Burgos @matiasbeck.bsky.social presents a poster about genome-microbiome interactions in feral chickens. P01.111. #ESEB2025

Madeleine Van Well Bergström @madeleinebergstrom.bsky.social presents a poster about feralization of the horse gut microbiome. P01.101. #ESEB2025

Charlotte Enkvist @cenkvist.bsky.social presents a poster about gut microbiomes in the Scandinavian wolverine. P01.080. #ESEB2025

Ester Martinez Renau @estermart.bsky.social presents a poster about hybrid flycatcher gut microbiomes. P01.089. #ESEB2025

We're five people from our group presenting posters tonight at #ESEB2025 ! In the #microbiome adaptation symposium S07.

Come chat with us about our research!

Great first plenary by Michael Lynch on drift, mutation, and the origin of cellular features.
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Come meet all the WAME organizers at the #Microbiome symposium S07 at ESEB today! We're in meeting room 116. 🦠

#eseb2025 @eseb2025.bsky.social

Hopefully tomorrow at the WAME symposium!

Group photo

Wild Animal Microbiome Evolution (WAME) @stn-wame.bsky.social satellite meeting today prior to #ESEB2025 was fun!

Bioinformatician - Uppsala University Bioinformatician, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University

The @scilifelab.se ancient DNA unit is looking for an bioinformatician placed at Uppsala University. This is a great way to be part of diverse #aDNA research projects as a staff scientist with permanent (!!) employment:

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